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FBI to post billboard of couple with S.J. ties missing since ’05

AP
Published 11:46 a.m. ET Feb. 19, 2014

When Danielle Imbo of Mount Laurel and Richard Petrone Jr. of Philadelphia went missing, friends distributed T-shirts bearing their photo.
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-Text: RAW FILE IN FOLDER: Tina Madden of Mantua, who was a high school friend of missing Mt. Laurel woman Danielle Imbo, hands out shirts with a photo on Danielle and Richard Petrone of Philadelphia, prior to a prayer service held for Danielle Imbo at St. Peter Celestine Church in Cherry Hill. Danielle Imbo was last seen with Richard Petrone 03/16/05 Photo by Chris LaChall/Courier-Post(Photo: cl)

Nine years to the day that a couple with South Jersey roots disappeared from a Philadelphia club, there’s news of another strategy in the search for the pair.

The FBI in Philadelphia says it plans to put up a digital billboard featuring a photo of Richard Petrone Jr. and Danielle Imbo in hopes someone can provide clues to their disappearance.

Imbo was living in Mount Laurel at the time of her disappearance, and Petrone was living in Philadelphia but grew up in South Jersey. They were last seen leaving a bar on South Street on Feb. 19, 2005. Petrone’s Dodge Dakota pickup truck was never found.

Petrone’s parents spoke to the Courier-Post Sunday about the pain of losing their son and desire for closure.

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“Our eyes won’t close until we get justice,” said Petrone’s mother, Marge.

Petrone, a 35-year-old single father and 1987 graduate of Bishop Eustace Prep in Pennsauken, helped run his family’s bakery shop, Viking Pastries in Ardmore, Pa. His daughter Angela was 14 when he vanished. Now 23, Angela is planning an October wedding — without her dad.

“It’ll be a difficult day to do it without him, but I want her to be happy,” Marge says. “I want her to have everything that he would’ve wanted her to have.”

A $50,000 reward is being offered for information about the couple’s whereabouts.